308 A Voyage to 



letcem That Ifland is indifferent high, and to be known on the 

 }$mL S. E. Side by a Point of low Land that runs out Eaft, and 

 by a Cape cut on the Weft-fide, form'd by a Point of Land, 

 on which there are two Rifings > laftly, by two fmall Hies 

 cut Perpendicular, which are a League to the Eaftward of 

 the faid Cape, cAvdllheos. Half a League SvS.E. frora 

 thefe, there are three Breakers., even with the Surface of the 

 Water ; all of them ill placed in the Flambeau de la Mer. 



Saturday, July the 14th, about Night falling, we came 

 to an Anchor in the Road of the City of Angra, in 20 Fa- 

 thom Water, the Bottom a gray Sand, broken Shells, and 

 fmall white Coral, Cape S. Anthony bearing from us S. W. 

 and by W. the Cathedral N. W. and by N. the Itheos, or 

 little Iflands above mention'd E.S, E. and Fort S.Sebaftian 

 N.N-W. This Pofition is to be obferv'd, in order to a- 

 void it upon Occafion, becaufe the Bottom is there mix'd 

 with great Stones. We faluted the Town with 9 Guns,, 

 which it return'd the next Morning Gun for Gun. 



A Pilot of the Town coming aboard to advife us ta 

 change our Station, when we were about weighing, the 

 Anchor was found engaged among Stones, fo that it was 

 requifite to put fuch Strefs to get it loofe that the Yard 

 broke ; bttt that Pilot, either through Malice or Ignorance^ 

 inftead of carrying us fomewhat farther out into 3 ,0 Fa- 

 thom of Water, in the midft between the little Iflands and 

 the Hillocks, where the Men of War anchor, having 

 brought us into 66 Fathom Water, we thought fit to re- 

 move to the ufual PIace 3 in 13 Fathom, the Bottom blackifh 



Sand 



Plate XXXVI. Page 259. explain 4 in Englifli. 



A, A Spanifh Woman of Peru, m her Stays and wide Petticoat, 



B. Another with a Cap and Mantle.' 



Another fitting holding a jilver Pipe to fuck through it the TinUure or Dc» 

 coll ion of the Herb of Paraguay. 



D. A Bowl made of a Gourd adorn d with Silver. 



E. A Silver Pot taheat the Water > in the midft of which h the Firt, in a Plant 



made for UG^ 



